street tracker Articles
Custom: Ride for Kids CBR250 tracker
This Honda CBR250R was built for Ride for Kids by Gregg’s Customs. It’s difficult to pigeonhole the bike since it combines clip-ons with 19-inch flat track wheels and tires, but what it really demonstrates is how nice the little Honda can look shorn of its fairings and complete with a little cosmetic cut and paste. The best part? You could own this for just $5. Photos: Sean Smith Ride for...
Custom: So-Cal Speed Shop Miler
First things first and full disclosure, I’m a sucker for street-trackers. Own two myself, the first a bumblebee-painted Roberts-rep Yam XS650 in a nickel-plated Champion frame that may be the perfect motorcycle—well, in short 20-minute bursts at least. The second is the “Web Surfer Special,” a budget project bike done in conjunction with street-tracker ace Richard Pollock of Mule Motorcycl...
Custom: Sideburn Honda FT500C Ascot
The first thing you notice about Sideburn Magazine’s project bike is the paint: a take on Ishihara color test designed and applied by Death Spray Custom. Then you notice that this isn’t a high dollar C&J frame or even a beat up Jawa race bike, it’s a 1983 Honda FT500C Ascot. Ouch. Photos: Paul Bryant Gary, Sideburn’s editor says: "This is Sideburn's Project FT, the cover bike of the c...
Itsy bitsy, teenie weenie Deus Bali customs
All the bikes below — this cafe racer, the street trackers, the hill climber and the scrambler — all look just like normal Deus Ex Machina, that’s no coincidence, they were built by the Australian builder’s new shop in Bali. There’s one thing very different about them though: none has an engine larger than 225cc, they’re freakin’ tiny. The Bali Dog The “Bali Dog”, is a dista...